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CONTRIBUTORS
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only time of the year when those of us without heated garages can do things
like hang out in said garage until two in the morning and share good times with
friends while scraping old undercoating off the bottom of the Chevelle or F100.
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As I’ve mentioned before in this column, we’re going to be rich in significant
anniversaries over the next couple of years. In the Spring issue, we looked
at some of the best from the American Class of ’63. This issue, we take an
in-depth look at a blockbuster car from Germany, the immortal Porsche 911,
which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. And we go back a decade further by pairing two cars that made their debut in 1953 — the Chevrolet Corvette and the Austin-Healey 100, two variations on the same theme.
Executive Editor Jonathan A. Stein continues his fascinating look at the
psychology of car collecting in “Caution to the Wind,” where he shines
a light on four ordinary car guys who had the foresight to beg, borrow
and find enough change between the cushions in order to buy cars that
turned out to be very special indeed.
Finally, we decided it was time to feature a classic American wagon in
an experiential story, so we put Hagerty employee Dan Beutler, his wife
and two daughters in a ’71 Olds Vista Cruiser and sent them on a classic
summer vacation. Could two 21st century teenage girls armed with oldfashioned car games and an AM radio survive a week in the Olds without
iPods? We’re happy to report that they could — and did — and maybe
became old car converts in the process.
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DAN BEUTLER has been Hagerty’s
DB controller
since 2004. He oversees the day-
CONTENTS
ISSUE 2 | 2013
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FEATURES
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Oceans apart
The 1953 Chevrolet Corvette and Austin-Healey
100-4 served the same purpose — to convey two
people from A to B with the sun on their faces and
room for little else. Each approached the task differently, and John L. Stein examines their legacies.
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The last great Packard
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A Hagerty Family Vacation
911 50
The Porsche 911 has always been about evolution
over revolution. Now in its 50th year, no other car
has aged so gracefully. Serial 911 owner Rob Sass
tells the story of the venerable German sports car.
Caution to the wind
Not all the world’s glamorous machinery is owned
by the rich and famous. Sometimes, writes Jonathan
A. Stein, ordinary people own extraordinary cars.
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By the 1950s, Packard was fighting for its very
survival. The Caribbean served as an elegant
entry in the final chapter, however, and Michael Lamm has the story.
We sent Hagerty Controller Dan Beutler and
his family on the road in a 1971 Oldsmobile
Vista Cruiser. No cell phones, no iPods. Just a
good old-fashioned roadtrip to Niagara Falls.
DEPARTMENTS
07 Publisher’s Letter
09 Contributors
10 Short Shifts
16 Carini on Cars: 1967, My Favorite Year
18 Your Turn: Before and After
22 Hands On: What is Your Engine Telling You?
54 Automobilia: Vintage Bumper Cars
Hagerty: Duesenberg vs. Mercedes,
56 Ask
Marx-style
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Marketwatch: Original Cars from Scottsdale
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Historic Vehicle Association: 1968 Sunoco
Camaro
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Rearview Mirror: Lovely Rita, the Family
Ambassador
Collectors Foundation: Ensuring the Future
of Classic Cars
CONTRIBUTORS
to-day operations of the accounting department, including the preparation of monthly
management reports and of the annual
audit and tax returns, as well as coordinating
the annual budget process and corporate
insurance needs. When he’s not managing
our finances, he takes his family on exotic
vacations in cool old station wagons, and
their weeklong adventure to Niagara Falls is
documented in this issue.
BOMSTEAD bought his first car
CB CARL
when he was 15, and a hundred or more have
passed through his hands since then. His first
love is CCCA Full Classics, but sports cars, hot
rods and cars from the 1950s all find garage
space. He has been a judge at the Pebble
Beach Concours d’Elegance for the past 18
years and has been collecting automobilia for
more than 30 years, including porcelain signs,
hood ornaments, and gas and oil memorabilia. In this issue, he explores the colorful
history of bumper cars.
MICHAEL LAMM grew up in south Texas.
ML He
attended Reed College and Columbia University and in 1959 became the editor of a VW
magazine. He was managing editor of Motor
Trend from 1962 to ’65 and co-founded Special-Interest Autos in 1970. In 1978, he started
his own publishing company, Lamm-Morada
Inc., which specializes in books about cars and
automotive history. Mike lives in Stockton,
California, and is a director of the Ironstone
Concours d’Elegance, held each September in
Murphys, California. His feature on the Packard
Caribbean appears in this issue.
John L. Stein was a charter editor of
JLS Automobile
and also served as road test
editor of Cycle, the world’s largest-circulation
motorcycle magazine. He subsequently spent
time as editor of Corvette Quarterly, GM’s
official journal for Corvette, and is currently
AutoWeek’s motorcycle test editor. John has
tested cars and bikes all over the world and
has raced at tracks such as Daytona, Sebring
and Laguna Seca. Today he enjoys a collection of 20 classic and contemporary motorcycles, including three V-twins. He penned our
cover story for this issue.
WHO’S IN THE ISSUE
DB
CB
ML
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DISCOVER THE BEST OF GEORGIAN BAY
Get busy
This summer is full of great events for gearheads, and aLl
that’s missing is you. Here are some of our favorites.
Stefan Lombard
The Great Race (June 22–30)
America’s favorite time-speed-distance rally is back.
The Great Race will take entrants “Down the Mighty
Mississippi,” from St. Paul, Minnesota, to Mobile,
Alabama. If you’re scoring at home, that’s 10 states
in nine days for a total of 2,100 miles. Cars, bikes
and trucks manufactured before 1969 will compete.
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CONCOURS D’ELEGANCE
Once again, Hagerty is fielding three teams, including
Jonathan Klinger and Davin Reckow in the 1917 Peerless “Green Dragon,” Tabetha Salsbury-Hammer and
Tricia Felski in the Hagerty resto-project 1969 Camaro, and John Hollansworth and Janet Hedke in a 1940
Cadillac sedan. We'll have live updates and albums
on our website throughout the event, so follow along
at hagerty.com/greatrace. And look for the race recap
in these pages in our Fall issue.
SEPTEMBER 14TH, 2013
The Great Race (above) is a Hagerty favorite, not just for the
cars and the competition, but for the camaraderie among
entrants. This Ford Model T (below) is one of 103 vehicles to be
sold to benefit Olds College.
Olds College Goodwill (June 21–23)
Gilmore Car Museum (July–September)
The Gilmore Car Museum has its roots in a single car —
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COBBLE BEACH WELCOMES THE CONCOURS D’ELEGANCE
At Cobble Beach, golf is just one of the activities available. Relax at our full-service
spa, play tennis, work out in the fitness centre, or take to the outdoors for hiking and
biking. Join us this September 14th for our first Concours d’Elegance, which displays
and judges more than 100 antique automobiles in pristine, Concours condition.
Visit cobblebeach.com for more information on Cobble Beach and Concours d’Elegance.
PHOTO: OLDS COLLEGE
The classic car hobby is full of generous people, and
J.C. (Jack) Anderson is one of them. Olds College, in
Calgary, Alberta, Canada, is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, and Mr. Anderson — who is not an
alum — has donated 103 classic cars to be auctioned
in a fundraiser for the school. The inventory includes a
1918 Maxwell, several Model A Fords, a 1936 DeSoto
Airflow, a variety of cars from Studebaker, Cadillac, Lincoln, Jaguar, Chevrolet, AMC and more. The sale takes
place at Olds College on June 23. To make a weekend
of it, the college has added a show and shine, cruise
night, fundraising dinner dance, tradeshow, swap
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the 1920 Pierce-Arrow gifted to Donald Gilmore by his
wife Genevieve in 1963. After 50 years, the museum in
Hickory Corners, Michigan, is now home to hundreds
of cars and motorcycles, as well as 75 vintage pedal
cars. The displays are housed across a 90-acre campus,
which includes eight historic barns, a 1930s service station and a quaint small-town train station. In addition to
the Fabulous Hudsons in the main gallery, Traditional
Hot Rods is a new exhibit planned for the summer. May
18 was a big day for Gilmore, as the new Model A Ford
Museum opened on the property, which coincided with
groundbreaking for the new Lincoln Motor Car Foundation Museum. Other great upcoming events include the
Corvair National Meet on July 20, Henry Ford’s 150th
Birthday Celebration on July 31, the Pierce-Arrow Gathering on August 25 and the Buick Bash on September
7. For more information, visit gilmorecarmuseum.org.
PHOTO: GILMORE CAR MUSEUM
SHORT SHIFTS
Party at Lime Rock (August 30–September 2)
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PHOTO: STEFAN LOMBARD
zero Dark Pebble (August 18 )
August is fast approaching, and that means that all the
events of the Monterey Classic Car Week (August 12–
18) are, too. As ever, Team Hagerty will be all over the
place — in the auction tents, on the tours, at the races
and covering the concours. We’ll have the lowdown on
everything in our Winter issue, but in the meantime,
please consider this your official invitation join us in
the wee hours of Sunday, August 18, for Pebble Beach
Dawn Patrol, where we’ll be serving coffee and doughnuts as we wait for concours participants to roll onto
the lawn. Oh, and we’ll have new hats, too.
enjoying the ride?
PHOTOS: LIME ROCK PARK
Historic Festival 31 is nearly upon us. The annual Labor Day weekend event at Lime Rock Park promises
to be a celebration of birthdays. For starters, more
than 100 Aston Martins are expected in honor of the
marque’s centenary year. A Cunningham 60th anniversary reunion is slated, with more than half of the C3
road cars and many Le Mans race cars on display, including — for the first time ever — all three Cunningham Le Mans Corvettes. More than 320 vintage race
cars in 10 classes will race throughout the weekend,
with a huge West Coast Trans Am contingent among
them. And the Sunday in the Park Concours will feature a comprehensive display of Lotus Elans (now 50
years old), along with a big gathering of Porsche 911s.
As always, the paddock will be open to all. Learn
more and purchase tickets at limerock.com.
The 40,000square-foot
Heritage Center
(top) is just one
attraction at
the Gilmore
Car Museum.
The racing at
Lime Rock's
Historic Festival
(above) is always
wheel to wheel,
and this year's
event will have
something for
everyone. Meanwhile, Hagerty's
Pebble Beach
Dawn Patrol
(left) is all about
caffeine, fried
dough and the
latest in concours
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The folks at the Freedom Road
Rally put on two great driving events
every year. The June drive around
the Northeast just wrapped up, and
their September rally is around the
corner, with a scenic cruise through
western Kentucky and Tennessee on
the docket. Participants will follow
parts of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail,
see private collections, make a stop
at the National Corvette Museum in
Bowling Green, take in the sights at
the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville,
and pay a visit to Graceland and
Sun Records in Memphis. The trip is
all about a leisurely pace with new
friends on great roads, and everyone
eats like a king. Learn more and sign
up now at freedomroadrally.com.
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The Freedom Road Rally provides likeminded enthusiasts with a great road trip
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CARINI ON CARS
my favorite Year
Wayne Carini
has cabin fever
Although the Olds Toronado came
along in 1966, its Eldorado cousin followed for 1967, and they were real feats
of engineering. Imagine, a front-wheeldrive car with a big, heavy V-8! Both
have styling to die for, even down to the
hubcaps. And if you look at the wheels,
grille and hood profile of the Toronado,
that car channels the Cord 810.
In 1967, I turned 16, got my driver’s
license and became a full-blown car
junkie. For a kid, it doesn’t get much better than driving around and chasing girls.
But of all the cars built in 1967, if I could
have just one it would be a Ferrari 275
GTB/4. It’s incredibly beautiful, and that
four-cam engine is amazing. It was the
ultimate in dream cars, but at the time
you could barely give them away.
The cars were great, even if my first
car — a 1966 MG 1100 — wasn’t. But
my rides soon got better, beginning
with a 1959 Beetle. For many cars, 1967
saw the ultimate development of both
styling and power, before bumper and
headlamp height requirements hit and
smog controls were introduced.
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Hindsight is great, but these cars were
so good in 1967 that even a girl-crazed
16-year-old could see they were special.
And I still see it years later.
Take the Jaguar E-Type. That car was
at its peak. Power and torque were as
high as they’d get, and the looks were
still perfect, with those delicate bumpers
and covered headlights.
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As humble as it may have been, to me
the 1967 VW Beetle was one of the best
cars ever built. The design was super
simple, and the 1967 model had the
most horsepower per pound for any aircooled VW. It still had the early chrome
bumpers, and thanks to the 12-volt
electrics, it started easily and had good
headlamps. I’ve had one for years.
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collector car
was good for something like 8,000
rpm. I’m still waiting for the right Z28.
One of the easiest
questions I’ve ever
been asked is: “What’s
your favorite year?” There’s no question that when it comes to cars, 1967
was the best.
Another car from 1967 that blew me
away was the Z28 Camaro with that incredible high-revving 302 small-block.
I’d been exposed to Ferraris and other
high-revving engines, but I wasn’t used
to an American pushrod engine that
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1964 Land Rover Series IIa
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Ed Arata and his wife spent several
years in Southern Africa as Peace
Corps volunteers in the early 1970s,
where they occasionally banged
around in Land Rovers. Two decades
later, Ed drove an old Land Rover
while working on a refugee project in
Rwanda and decided he needed to
have one for a "town car" in northern
California. “I looked around for several
years for my ‘dream’ Rover and finally
found an 88-inch short-wheelbase
model with the 2.25-liter gasoline
engine on eBay in Pennsylvania,” Ed
says. It was five shades of green but
ran well enough, and last winter Ed
serviced the running gear and brakes
then began scraping and cleaning. He
repainted it, and the Land Rover now
sports military insignias from Southern
Africa, jerry cans for fuel and water,
ammo cans and a British-style rifle.
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Richard Bennett’s fuel-injected 1964 Corvette is thoroughly restored these days,
but once upon a time, it was owned by
racer Thom Jamison, who had designs
on the 1964 Pike’s Peak Hill Climb. In a
practice run, however, Jamison hit a race
official's Jeepster while going about
100 mph. Richard did much research on
Jamison and the Corvette before he acquired it 12 years ago. Before that, it sat
unused for 10 years, painted white and
fitted with a 1965 front end as a fix for
the collision. “The car was rough from
neglect but very restorable,” Richard
says. He farmed out the work and had
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it restored to original specs, including
the original 327 block and heads, and
had a Duntov-spec cam installed. He
also located a correct fuel-injection unit
and distributor. Richard now shows the
Corvette and uses it for pleasure drives
on sunny days.
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1963 Lotus Seven
valuE RANGE:
$13,800–$45,800
Hank Mauel’s vintage racing partner
bought this 1963 Lotus Seven in 1991,
with plans to return it to vintage racing
specifications. But the project never
materialized and the car hung in the
shop rafters until 2007, when Hank
decided to return it to Lotus Seven
America street configuration. “The
poor car had been bastardized," says
Hank, "with an adjustable front suspen-
1931 Buick Model 8-96
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sion, Lotus Twin Cam motor, enormous
tires and a thoroughly cobbled-up wiring and gauge system.” Now restored
to one of the possible configurations it
could have had in 1963, it has a BMC Aseries engine and transmission, proper
tires with Panasport-style wheels, correct gauges featuring a chronometric
tachometer, and a BRG paint job with
yellow nose cone. Strictly a fair-weather
car now, Hank uses it for tours, shows
and back-road cavorting in the Sierra
Nevada foothills of northern California.
In 1956, while at the University of Wisconsin,
Wallie Meisner spotted his Buick. "It seemed to
need someone like me to care for it," he says, so
he bought it. He stored it for four years while he
finished college and served in the Navy. In 1960,
Wallie towed it to his first home in Minnesota and
began a body-off restoration. But with a growing
family he soon set the project aside. Finally, when
he retired in 2004, his wife Gayle encouraged him
to turn the project over to Crown Point Classics
in Wisconsin. In July 2006, Wallie received the
beautifully restored Buick at the Buick Club meet
in Rochester, Minnesota. Since then, he's shown it
and driven it with great success.
1955 Ford F600 Flatbed
Do you have a great car?
valuE RANGE:
$6,500–$15,000
When Greg Dannemiller saw this Ford
F600 sitting outside the local repair
shop in Martinsville, Indiana, he bought
it on the spot. It ran sporadically, so
son Adrien pulled the engine. Greg, his
daughter Devory and Adrien rebuilt the
272-cid V-8, and replaced the brakes,
clutch and wiring. A friend did the
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paint, and the upholstery was by Jim's
Custom Trim Shop. The family sandblasted and finished the old flatbed,
and Greg sourced rough-sawn Indiana
Poplar for the livestock panels. A final
clearcoat by Adrien on the livestock
panels just in time for Father’s Day
completed the project.
Whether you have beforeand-after photos of a car
you’ve restored or then-andnow images of an unrestored
machine, send your best photos and a brief description to
[email protected],
and you might see it featured
in these pages. See complete
guidelines at hagerty.com/
submissions.
hands on
out of tune or
photo: Corbis
Out of Time?
How to know when your engine
needs a complete rebuild
When your pride and
joy’s engine room cries
out distress signals, the
correct response could range from a
routine tune-up to a complete overhaul. If the issues are rough running,
high fuel consumption and diminished
power, the remedy might be fresh
plugs, new ignition wires, and resetting the dwell and timing. But if there’s
a low oil-pressure reading at idle, blue
smoke out back and abnormal noises
under the hood, you’re in for more.
Before you hook your lift chain to the
block, a comprehensive diagnosis is
essential. Start by measuring each cylinder’s compression pressure during
cranking with the engine warm and the
ignition disabled. If one or more holes
reads low, that’s a serious fault that
needs to be remedied. Another means
of identifying worn valves and piston
rings is to conduct a leak-down test. A
leak-down tester applies compressed
air through each cylinder’s spark plug
hole with the piston at top dead center
and both valves closed. Two gauges
report the supply pressure and one
cylinder’s sealing pressure. If the low
reading divided by the high reading is
less than 80 percent, you have inadequate sealing. When you hear air leaking into the intake manifold or exhaust
pipe, the valves are at fault. Bubbles at
the radiator filler expose leakage into
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the cooling system. If you trace the escaping air sound to the crankcase, the
pistons and/or rings are the culprit.
Using a mechanic’s stethoscope is the
best way to identify where air is exiting the cylinders. That same tool can
also be used to pinpoint the location
and cause of rattles, knocks, ticks and
slapping sounds while the engine runs.
Heavy knocks indicate bad bearings or
cracked pistons. Lighter clicks reveal
valvetrain issues such as a collapsed
lifter or excessive lash.
If burned or poorly sealing valves are
positively identified as the culprit, you
should be able to get by with a topend overhaul. That means removing
and refurbishing the head(s) by grinding the valves and their seats. It’s wise
to have your machine shop renew the
head-to-block surface at this time.
Removing the heads or the complete
engine are within the means of any
home mechanic with the proper tools.
But from that point on, you’ll most
likely need the services of a reputable
shop. Before you commit, check with
fellow club members, local auto parts
stores, and customers of the prospective shop. Online sites like yelp.com
and angieslist.com can help you here.
Doing the job right is your best assurance that you’ll enjoy many happy
miles before major engine work is
again required.
RESOURCES
While many auto parts
stores rent, sell or loan engine diagnostic tools, they
can also be purchased here:
eastwood.com
harborfreight.com
sears.com
snapon.com
photo: Getty images
Don Sherman
O C E A N S A PA R T
Sixty years ago, GM and BMC launched two of the century’s most iconic
sports cars. After some rough sailing, they’re both highly regarded today.
B y John L . S t e in | P ho t ogr a p h y b y e va n K l e in
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No matter how you cut it, 1953 was a
big year. Sir Edmund Hillary conquered
Mt. Everest, America tested the Hbomb, Ian Fleming created James
Bond and Hef launched Playboy. But
’53 was also pivotal for sports cars,
with the introduction of the Chevrolet
Corvette and Austin-Healey 100-4.
While both were two-passenger convert-
1953
ibles, the Corvette used a steel ladder
frame and fiberglass body, a first for a
major manufacturer, while the Healey
used a steel and aluminum inner and
outer structure on a steel ladder frame.
The Corvette had an inline-six-cylinder
pushrod engine and an unusual twospeed automatic, whereas the Healey
used a smaller four-cylinder pushrod
engine with a more versatile threespeed manual gearbox with overdrive.
And while the ’Vette came in Polo White
with red interior only, the Healey was
available in multiple color combinations.
But the most significant difference was
their place of origin: Flint, Michigan, for
the Corvette and Longbridge, England,
for the Austin-Healey.
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Despite these
fundamental differences, both of the fledgling sports cars were designed for America.
After several previous automobile manufacturing projects, Donald Healey got the idea
for what would become the 100-4 during a drive across the U.S. in 1948, where he saw
great enthusiasm for the affordable new MGTC. With America its intended market,
this largely explains why an estimated 90 percent of “big Healey” production was lefthand drive. It’s also why every Corvette ever built by the factory is left-hand drive.
Not Ready for Market
Originally shown as a New York City
Motorama concept car in 1953, the
Corvette was put into production
hurriedly. With a handmade fiberglass
body, just 300 examples were built
for the first model year, compared to
an estimated 1,274 Healey 100-4s. By
design or simply because at $3,498
it was rather expensive for the day (a
Chevy business coupe cost $1,524),
only well-off or well-connected individuals owned the first-year Corvettes,
including John Wayne and various VIPs
as recognized by General Motors or its
influential dealer body. Interestingly,
the list price dropped to $2,774 for the
St. Louis-built 1954 Corvettes.
The ’53 Corvette and 100-4
proved there was more than
one way to skin a cat. And while
the Healey holds a performance
edge from its torquey inline-four,
the rarer six-cylinder ’Vette will
always trump it in the market.
Just as BMC tapped the corporate parts
bins for the production Austin-Healey,
GM used many existing parts to create
the Corvette. The engine block and
most of the front suspension were of
Chevy passenger-car origin, although
there were proprietary powertrain
components such as the cylinder head,
carburetors, intake manifold and exhausts. “It was a design exercise, thrown
together as quickly as possible,” recalls
Corvette historian Jim Gessner. “I don’t
think GM answered the question of
what a sports car should be with that
first model. The six-cylinder with three
carbs was a neat idea, but with the Powerglide it missed — they should have
used a three-speed manual.”
Gessner still defends the early Corvette’s
performance credentials, however.
“Despite the powertrain, some guys in
that era liked what they were and raced
them,” he says. And you could never call
any Corvette fragile. Based on robust
Chevrolet passenger-car engineering, the
Corvette’s bones were solid as a blacksmith’s anvil.
Ed Wittwer, a Corvette collector and
restorer, adds: “The 1953 model’s high
point was as a specific two-place sports
car, and that was something pretty
unique at that time — the start of GM entering the sporty-car market. Low points
probably included the rush to market;
the debut was very hurried and as a result
there were a lot of preparation issues,
particularly with the body fit and finish.
The major drawback, of course, was the
automatic transmission. A sports car with
an automatic was never really accepted.”
Despite low initial production and an
eventual reputation as a performance
dud (at least in some circles), the new
Corvette had its supporters. “Having
looked at the Chevrolet Corvette … I've been
pleasantly surprised,” wrote Motor Trend Editor Walt Woron in the November 1953 issue.
"The Corvette not only has ‘go’ from a traffic
light, punch at high speeds, an uncanny ability
to stay flat through sharp turns and a solid
ride, but has eye-appeal as well. Probably one
of the biggest surprises I got with the car was
when I took it through some sharp corners at
fairly good speeds. It sticks better than some
foreign sports cars I've driven.”
Despite the 20 percent price reduction for 1954,
the Corvette nameplate still took a long time
to get moving. While Chevrolet built just 3,947
six-cylinder Corvettes from 1953 to 1955, BMC
would crank out an impressive 14,634 AustinHealey 100-4 units between 1953 and 1956. The
big sales numbers wouldn’t start for Corvette
until 1956, when it got a new body design to
match its recently added manual transmission
and small-block V-8. And ultimately, of course,
Corvette won the war, as some 1.5 million
’Vettes have now been built, with the seventhgeneration model having debuted at the North
American International Auto Show in Detroit,
Michigan, in January 2013.
Today, the 1953 Corvettes are prized among
collectors, with values for good examples
hitting $300,000 or higher and with an estimated 200 of the 300 built accounted for.
By contrast, depending upon condition, the
similar-appearing 1954 model-year Corvette
is worth one-fourth as much.
An Austin By Chance
Though Donald Healey had prior car-building experience, the new “100” model was
his brightest star to date and would become
the defining automobile (alongside the later
six-cylinder 3000 model) of his tenure as a
British automaker.
The Healey 100 debuted at the London
International Motor Show at Earls Court in
1952, where BMC made a deal with Donald
Healey right then and there to produce the
car, significantly increasing the production
capacity but requiring a name change from
“Healey” to “Austin-Healey.” Still, with faultless lines, strong performance and features
like knockoff wire wheels and an adjustable
“racing position” windscreen, it looked the
business and could compete with distinction
on street or track.
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When it came to styling, interiors and detailing, the Corvette
(above) came off as overwhelmingly American and the AustinHealey as distinctly British.
There were two series of 100-4s — BN1
and BN2. Built in 1953 and 1954, the
BN1 had a three-speed transmission,
while the 1955–56 BN2 had a more
versatile four-speed with overdrive and
a stronger differential. The body assembly was steel, except for aluminum front
and rear aprons, bonnet and boot lids.
The first handmade 20 or so Healey
100s wore damage-prone aluminum
mudguards and door panels as well.
“The styling was outstanding and they
never changed the shape,” says Healey
Lane Restoration owner John Wilson.
“You could take a 1953 fender off and
put it on a 1967 with only minor differences. The fold-down windshield looked
good but it was impractical — it was really a sales gimmick to give the car a racy
look, and a simple aero screen actually
works better. The original engine was
nearly 2.7 liters, with lots of torque, and
produced 90 horsepower in stock form.
“One negative, though, was that the
four-speed Austin transmission was
geared very low. That first year they
blocked the low first gear and made
the transmission into a three-speed.
Ground clearance was also a problem
for the car. It was only a little over three
inches under the mufflers, and so on
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1953 Austin-Healey 100-4
Engine 2.7-liter OHV inline four TRANSMISSION 3-speed manual Carburetion 2 x 1 bbl.
Horsepower @ rpm 90 @ 4,000 Torque, FT-LB. @ rpm 144 @ 2,000 Acceleration, 0-60 mph, sec.
10.5 Curb weight, lb. 2,150 top speed, MPH 110 number produced 1,274 Original base price
$2,985
Value range $16,500–$86,500
Healeys that were raced, the exhausts
came out ahead of the tires.”
car; you’re not constantly shifting gears
to rev the engine to its peak.”
The big four-cylinder engine responded
well to modifications, and more than
a few 100-4s ended up as competition
cars. Austin-Healey notably entered the
Mille Miglia and endurance races like
Le Mans, and even took to the Bonneville Salt Flats to set speed records.
So in its day, the $2,985 Healey was a viable and affordable sports car — though
not without weakness. It was known to
be electrically unreliable, have poor ride
quality and offer little crash safety or
rust resistance. And while the Corvette
continuously evolved, by the time BMC
gave the Healey roll-up windows and
other comfort concessions, the basic
design — now powered by a three-liter
straight-six — had been on the market
for nine years and had seen its best
years. “There was a period where no
one wanted any of the big Healeys,”
admits Austin-Healey Club founder
Hank Leach. “Healey fans had differences of opinion over the four-bangers
and six-cylinder cars, but the fact is after
production stopped going into 1968, no
one else liked Healeys much at all.”
After driving an early-build 100 model
in California, in the November 1953
Motor Trend, Editor Woron remarked,
“It’s fast, has lots of punch at any speed
and in any gear, including high. For a
90-inch-wheelbase car, the ride is good,
and it takes dips reasonably well. The
‘100’ corners like a sports car should:
When you’re powering through a very
sharp or wet turn you can break the
rear end loose, but you correct the
wheels slightly and the car’s back under
control. Neither the gearbox nor the
engine is temperamental. You can treat
both of them like those of an American
Over a span of 15 years, the 100-4
evolved into the six-cylinder 100-6 and fi-
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For Chevrolet and BMC, the earliest Corvette and Austin-Healey
models were the beginning of
sports car dynasties.
nally into the 3000 “BJ8” model through
1967. In the end, advancing U.S. safety
regulations and financial challenges at
British Motor Corporation proved the
end for the Big Healey.
“BMC had closed down everything, and
no one even had any parts for them,”
Leach continues. “As time went on, the
later six-cylinder cars, which were more
refined, took over as the most desirable,
and the 100-4 owner got looked at as
somebody who didn’t appreciate a fine
sports car. Only the purists liked them.
They were fun to drive but unreliable,
and the BJ8s were stronger and heavier.
But the desirability factor is now reversing, and in my opinion, ultimately the
100-4 values may go beyond the BJ8s.”
According to Hagerty Price Guide #20,
a 100-4 BN1 in number 2 condition is
valued at $43,200, while a BJ8 in similar
condition is valued at close to $75,000.
Where to Invest
The British expression “as different
as chalk and cheese” is perfect when
discussing the 1953 Austin-Healey 100-4
and Corvette. You can park them door-todoor and argue the details all day long,
but in the end it’s like comparing a Napa
chardonnay to French Champagne — the
real winner is whichever you prefer.
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1953 Chevrolet Corvette
Engine 235-cid OHV inline six TRANSMISSION 2-speed automatic Carburetion 3 x 1 bbl.
Horsepower @ rpm 150 @ 4,200 Torque, ft-LB. @ rpm 223 @ 2,400 Acceleration, 0-60 mph, sec. 11.5
Curb weight, lb. 2,886 top speed, MPH 105 number produced 300 Original base price $3,498
Value range $154,500–$410,000
With its sturdy box frame, utilitarian
running gear and a weatherproof sit-ontop body molded of plastic resin and
glass-fiber, the Corvette was like the
Antichrist of European sports cars in its
day. In contrast, the Healey is light, spare
and reserved in its design and construction, and while a good performer with
its torquey engine, it proved generally
vulnerable. Though both cars survived a
rough first few years before flourishing,
only the Corvette endured — and it has
surfed a peculiarly American wave of
interest ever since.
In terms of investment potential,
unquestionably the 1953 Corvette has
enjoyed its day in the sun already, with
prices ramping up wildly during recent
decades as Baby Boomer lust built to a
crescendo. So in the future, don’t expect
to see much of a price increase — especially as nostalgic Boomers begin
to sunset out of collector-car buying.
Regardless of this, the ’53 will remain
indelible as the original Corvette, and so
given the few examples extant, it is likely
quite bombproof in terms of value.
By contrast, the 1953 Austin-Healey has
long been overshadowed by the later
Big Healeys, so it looks like a bargain
compared to almost any early classic Corvette. Though it is not an American icon,
it was built primarily for the U.S. market
and is rightfully an iconic British sports car.
Thanks to its lovely design, spirited performance, good racing pedigree and ample
availability, the ’53 Healey 100-4 has the
potential to emerge from the shadow of
the later six-cylinder 3000 series cars.
Both the Corvette and 100-4 represent
an era in America where sports cars
were still in their infancy. You’ll never go
wrong with either, though at a cheaper
point of entry — and with more of
them to choose from — you’re likely to
get more driving satisfaction from the
Healey. But the Corvette will always be
America’s Sports Car, and those built in
1953 forever sit at the head of the table.
TM
SINCE 1926
91150
The astonishing 50-year legacy of the 911
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That the Porsche 911 is 50 years old and still relevant may offer some hope
and comfort to those of us who, like myself, will have to confront the
same milestone in the relatively near future. In fairness though, most of
us are nowhere near as polarizing as the 911. It’s given car enthusiasts
something both to treasure and to argue about for each of those 50
years. To its legion of fans, there is no substitute. To detractors like stock
car driver Bobby Allison, it’s “a $12,000 imported Corvair.” And Hagerty
contributor P.J. O’Rourke once famously called it “an ass-engined Nazi
slot car.” Nobody ever seems to be indifferent to the 911.
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Most people are relatively familiar with
the basic origins of Porsche and the
911, but few realize that it was only
the second road car series produced
by Porsche as an automaker. The first
was of course the 356 of 1948, and
while it shared few common parts with
the Volkswagen Beetle, their common
ancestry was apparent in both design
and layout. The efficient-looking 356
clearly benefitted from the streamlining work pioneered by Paul Jaray and
the pre-war VW Type 64 racer. Endearing though the 356 may have been
— and beautifully built — it was also
plump and dowdy. The Butzi Porschedesigned 911 (which was introduced at
the Frankfurt Motor Show in 1963) had
a lower beltline, more glass and lovely
elliptical rear quarter windows retained
to this day. Quite simply, the 911 was
beautiful where the 356 was not.
EARLY YEARS
While the basic architecture of the 911’s
rear engine and torsion bar suspension
harked back to the 356 and the prewar Beetle, other than the floor-hinged
pedals and primitive heater, by the 911’s
introduction, most of the VW-ness was
confined soley to the Porsche’s DNA.
One of the main goals of the Type 901 —
as the 911 was officially known (Peugeot
claimed a trademark on the digit-zerodigit nomenclature) — was to expand
the performance envelope beyond that
of the 356, which strained to do a steady
100 mph. The costly and complicated
four-cam, four-cylinder Carrera engine
used in race cars like the 550 Spyder, the
904 and a limited number of 356 street
1965
The early years of 1964–65 were a bit
of a soft launch as the 911 was built in
small numbers and offered alongside
the 356C, which was superseded by the
four-cylinder 912. After 1965, development of the 911 proceeded at a far more
furious pace than typical for conservative
Porsche. For 1967, Porsche added the
911S, a high-performance variant with
180 hp on which the company first debuted the iconic Fuchs alloy wheels. Although lacking in low-end grunt, above
4,000 rpm, there was nothing like it. Road
& Track wrote that it “had performance
on the order of an American muscle car,
without the stigma of low cost.” Porsche
also offered an open version of the 911
for the first time in the Targa, which had a
lift-off roof, fixed roll hoop and, initially, a
folding soft rear window.
For 1969, the wheelbase grew a few
inches (engine placement stayed the
same and the rear half shafts were
angled back), and the fenders were subtly flared to accommodate larger wheels
and tires; with the additional power of
the 911S, the skinny 4.5-inch wheels and
165x15 tires were beginning to show
their limitations in restraining the natural
tail-wagging tendencies of the 911. As
the saying goes: “There are two kinds
of 911 drivers, those who have spun and
those who will spin.”
Also by 1969, a three-tiered model lineup
had developed: the 911T with 110 hp
and carburetors; the 911E with 160 hp,
mechanical fuel injection and more comfort options; and the 180-hp 911S, also
fuel-injected. Over the next four model
years, horsepower increased a bit and
there were two displacement increases,
from 2.0 to 2.2 liters and then to 2.4 liters,
which improved low-end torque. The
four-cylinder 912 disappeared after 1969.
SURVIVING AND THRIVING
Like other automakers, in the 1970s
Porsche faced tightening emissions and
safety requirements. Unlike many other
manufacturers, however, new bumper
laws didn’t deface Porsche’s products,
nor did emissions laws emasculate
them. Bosch K-Jetronic electronic fuel
injection became standard on the
1973½ 911T, which made it perhaps the
smoothest and most pleasant 911 yet.
The 210-hp duck-tailed Carrera RS also
bowed in 1973, although sadly, this candidate for the best 911 ever was never
officially imported into the U.S.
The first major style change to the 911
came in 1974, with the advent of 5 mph
bumpers. They were well integrated
and did nothing to spoil the car’s looks.
Simultaneously, there was another displacement bump, to 2.7 liters. Unfortunately, the one misstep made by Porsche
during these tough years was the use of
heat-producing thermal reactors along
with differing metals in the engine case,
1967
MSRP: $7,231
The original
911 featured a
148-bhp flat six,
disc brakes and a
fresh look.
1965 911
Value Range: $49,800–$136,000
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cars was a developmental blind alley. The
flat-six of the 911, with its chain-driven
single overhead cams, was simpler to
assemble and had far more potential. In
its initial 2-liter form, it produced a full 40
more horsepower than the Super 90 356
motor. A top speed of 100 mph was now
easy, and 130 mph was within reach.
1967 911 S
MSRP: $6,500
With higher compression (9.8:1 vs. 9.0:1)
and the debut of the Fuchs alloy wheels
and vented disc brakes, the 911S set new
standards in handling and performance,
even for Porsche.
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pistons and heads. When the various
components expanded and contracted
at different rates under the heat of the
thermal reactors, problems ensued.
ists howled at its use on the standard car.
Major visual cues for the new car were
few, with fog lights faired into the front
valance and a new engine lid script.
As a result, U.S.-spec 1975–77 2.7-liter
engines were essentially hand grenades with pins that inevitably fell out
at the 70,000-or-so-mile mark. At least
the galvanized bodies ensured that
these cars would live on with engine
rebuilds or swaps from later cars. It
wasn’t all bad news, though. For the
1976 model year, Porsche introduced
quite possibly the most influential and
exciting car of the decade in the sensationally fast 911 Turbo Carrera, otherwise known as the 930. At the other
end of the spectrum, the four-cylinder
912 (now the 912E) was back for one
year as the entry-level Porsche.
The 3.2 Carrera may have been the highwater mark for the classic air-cooled 911
in terms of simplicity, ease of maintenance and longevity. Subsequent cars
like the 1989–94 Carrera 2 and Carrera
4 (known to enthusiasts as the 964) took
inspiration from the fabulous 959 supercar and became far more complex, finally
ditching the torsion bars and gaining
power steering and all-wheel drive in the
Carrera 4. The final air-cooled 911 was
the 993 of 1994–98. It may well go down
as one of the prettiest 911s ever. The
rather bulbous front fascia of the 964 was
replaced by an all-new front with flatter
headlights and front fenders reminiscent
of the 959. A new rear suspension forever
banished what was left of the 911’s infamous tail-wagging tendencies.
All was put right for 1978 with the
introduction of the 172-hp 3.0-liter
911SC, which adopted the wider rear
fender flares of the 2.7-liter Carrera RS
and a host of other improvements. Most
importantly, it introduced the concept
of extreme long life to the 911 equation. To go with the heavily rust-resistant
galvanized bodies introduced in 1976,
carefully maintained engines were
capable of covering up to 300,000 miles
between rebuilds. In 1983, Porsche
added a truly open 911 — the Cabriolet
— for the first time. The following year,
the 911 received a new engine management system, a larger 3.2-liter engine,
another 20-plus horsepower and the
Carrera name. Previously applied only to
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essentially unkillable, easy to maintain
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the ham-fisted or the careless.
There is really no such thing as an undesirable 911, but some stand out from others. The earliest cars from late 1964 are
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But the real legacy of the classic aircooled 911s is their longevity, both in
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Ordinary
People,
Extraordinary
Cars
BY Jonathan A. Stein
Corvette Photos by
Joe Vaughn
A
s a rule, wealthy collectors
own the Duesenbergs,
Ferraris, Cobras and COPO
Camaros, while middle-class
folks like us own Mustangs,
Chevelles, Model As and MGBs. It’s
always been like that, but as one memorable seventh-grade teacher insisted: “A
rule is not a rule unless there’s an exception.” Those exceptions do happen,
and once in a while ordinary people with
jobs and mortgages and car payments
and tuition bills end up with extraordinary automobiles by being smart, lucky,
Hugh Guynes had to convince his wife that a
Cobra (this page) was worth a year’s salary. In
foolhardy or all three.
Cobra Dreams
“I remember seeing a Cobra in a magazine in the early 1960s, and that’s the
car I always wanted,” says retired airline
pilot Hugh Guynes. “The first time I
had a chance to buy one was in 1974.
The price was $8,000, and I was making
$12,000 as an Air Force lieutenant. I
didn’t buy it, because it was green.”
A year later, he saw a silver 289 in Dayton, Ohio. When that car hit the market,
he’d just bought a new Corvette and had
to pass again. Finally, in 1992, Guynes
saw that same Cobra at a Shelby meet.
When he told his wife, “Shaun’s car is for
sale,” she was less than thrilled. Guynes,
though, rationalized the purchase, which
cost “about my annual salary," by telling
her, “this car will never be less than what
it is worth now.” Still not impressed, his
wife countered: “This is an awful lot of
money. Why are we spending this?”
The good news, says Guynes, was that
although the owner required a substantial down payment, “he wanted me to
finance the Cobra with him.”
Guynes loves the Cobra. “It has never
even been bumped. When I stripped the
paint, it didn’t even have a door ding. It’s
the original body, engine and transmission.” Ultimately, Guynes opted for a full
restoration and a repaint in its original
Guardsman Blue.
He has no plans to sell the car — now
worth at least $600K — and instead will
hindsight, Bill Tower’s purchase of his Grand
Sport (opposite) was inspired.
1965 Shelby 289 Cobra
leave it to his son. He readily admits
that he couldn’t possibly buy this car
now, and that he “couldn’t afford half
the price.”
Guynes drives the Cobra often, and
he even drives it hard. “Six weeks after
I finished the car, I took it to the drag
strip, which most people, including
the judges at Cincinnati’s Ault Park
Concours, find unfathomable.“
Modern Art
Don Murphy lives in an attractive
older subdivision in Maryland. There
is no indication that the tiny Italian
car in his garage may be the single
most important production Cisitalia
202 coupe. Now worth upwards of
$300K, this very car was included in
the Museum of Modern Art’s groundbreaking “8 Automobiles Exhibit” of
1951, which effectively acknowledged
automobiles as fine art. Although he
delivers new trucks occasionally, when
the retired Detroit Diesel veteran
bought his 1947 Cisitalia in 1967, he
was a service manager making well
under $200 a week.
Murphy had known the Cisitalia since
his high school days, but he’d lost
touch with it, until he saw its forlorn
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1947 Cisitalia 202
Don Murphy (on right) with
former owner Don Gordon
and his Cisitalia (left). Few
people have ever seen a
Pegaso, yet Raffi Minasian
(below) won his class at
Pebble Beach with his.
nose peeking out of a New Jersey garage.
Throwing caution to the wind, Murphy struck
a deal to buy the car for “many weeks’ salary.”
With a young family and a mortgage, however,
he admits, “it was a hard sell at home.”
There were bills to pay and a daughter to educate,
but the tired Cisitalia followed the family when
they moved to Maryland, and it sat while the piles
of parts slowly grew. After the last tuition check in
1987, restoration began. Even with Murphy doing
much of the work, restoring a 40-year-old limitedproduction Italian car proved very costly. Finally,
the car was complete enough to debut at the
Baltimore Concours in 1991. More than 20 years
later, Murphy still cherishes the lovely Cisitalia and
is amazed at his good fortune.
If Horses could fly
1953 PEGASO Z102
The fabulous red and black 1953 Pegaso Z102
Thrill show car had already passed his father’s limit
when 17-year-old Raffi Minasian raised his paddle
one more time at the Christie’s Los Angeles auction in 1979. The gavel fell, and they bought the
one-off Touring-bodied Pegaso for more than half
of what the senior Minasian had earned
in his law practice’s best year.
A running, driving and presentable
example, Raffi had to learn to cope
with a car for which there was no
information and even fewer parts
available. Shortly after acquiring the
Pegaso (Pegasus), the Minasians took
third in class with it at Pebble Beach. It
was also the car in which the younger
Minasian courted his future wife. “My
mother-in-law could hear me approaching from a block away,” he says.
When the elder Minasian died in 1985,
Raffi retained the car. Finally, in 1990,
after realizing there was no way he could
afford to restore it properly, he sold a half
share in it in exchange for a full restoration. The outcome was a win in the competitive Pegaso class at Pebble Beach in
1994. Thanks to Pebble Beach, interest in
the previously obscure Spanish marque
soared, and so did values. When the car
sold in 1995, Minasian divided his share
when Murphy saw the
Cisitalia
with its forlorn nose peeking
out of a New Jersey garage,
he threw caution to the
wind and bought it for
“many weeks’ salary”
with his sister, brother and mother; all
four were able to place down payments
on homes. Now, a really good Pegaso
will trade for about a million dollars, with
roadsters or one-offs worth more.
in the right place
Bill Tower’s strong southern drawl and
folksy speech pattern sometimes lead
people to the wrong conclusions. He
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admit, but he does have something a
bunch of wealthy collectors would die
for: Grand Sport Corvette number 5.
When he graduated from GMI (now
Kettering University) as a mechanical
engineer in 1964, Tower was assigned
to Chevrolet’s racing department,
working under the legendary Vince
Piggins. Early on he was part of the engine program for the Corvette Grand
Sport. But when corporate brass
learned that these all-out competition
machines were built in defiance of the
Automobile Manufacturers Association
ban on racing, the program was canceled. When the Grand Sports were
steered into private hands, he joined
Jim Hall’s crew at Sebring and number
5 made a lasting impression.
After almost 15 years and many GM
and NASCAR racing projects he can
talk about — and many he can’t —
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Bill Tower
(above) knows
he is lucky to
be the custodian of Grand
Sport number
5, which looks
like it just rolled
off a race track.
Grand Sport and uttered the hopeful words: “If you ever
want to sell it, give me a call.” Around Christmas 1978,
that call came, and Tower had to sell everything that
wasn’t nailed down, as well as arrange for a hefty loan
that amounted to a lot more than his salary. “Everybody
thought I was crazy,” he admits, but nobody’s laughing
now. “A week doesn’t go by that people don’t call about
it.” Many of those callers want the car for shows and exhibits, but Tower, who’s still working almost 50 years after
graduating from GMI, doesn’t have the means to ship it all
over the place. The other calls come from wealthy collectors who think they can give the car a better home. Funny
thing is, it’s hard to imagine a better custodian than a man
who worked on the Grand Sport engine program, crewed
for Jim Hall, and personally and painstakingly restored
Grand Sport number 5 to its exact original configuration.
All four car owners know just how lucky they’ve been.
They also know about choices and sacrifice. Raffi Minasian knew that selling the Pegaso would be in the best
interest of his entire family, while Murphy had to wait years
to restore the Cisitalia. Guynes had to give up risking his
increasingly valuable Cobra at the drags and Tower had to
incur a substantial debt to get his incredible Grand Sport.
And all have had to face down wealthy aspiring owners
who think they are more deserving. But we know better.
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1953 Packard Caribbean (below)
and 1955 Caribbean (opposite).
1955 packard
Caribbean
The last great
NUMBER Produced: 500
Original Price: $5,932
Value Range:
$53,600–$136,000
the Packard Caribbean | By Michael Lamm
P
ackard’s last great car, the Caribbean, had its roots in a low, clean
roadster dubbed the Pan American, a 1952 show car designed
by Richard Arbib and built by the
Henney Motor Co. in Freeport, Illinois.
Henney bid on the Caribbean, as
did Michigan’s Ionia Body Division of
Mitchell-Bentley Corporation. Ionia
won, and Mitchell-Bentley ended up
handbuilding and finishing all 1953
and 1954 Caribbeans.
In the early 1950s, Packard dealers needed a halo car, and the Pan
American seemed a good candidate. It
proved too costly, however, so Packard
management asked its new chief stylist,
Dick Teague, to come up with a more
reasonable, more appealing alternative.
The first Caribbean went on sale in
March 1953, just in time to join GM’s
trio of country club convertibles — the
Cadillac Eldorado, Buick Skylark and
Oldsmobile Fiesta. Mitchell-Bentley
turned out 750 Caribbeans that year
and would have built more, but Packard
wanted to preserve the car’s exclusivity.
Looking back, that first-year Caribbean wasn’t especially luxurious. True,
it came with leather upholstery, radio
and heater, but power accessories and
the automatic transmission cost extra.
And it used the base Packard’s fivemain, L-head, straight-eight engine and
three-speed manual transmission. Even
so, the car wasn’t inexpensive. In 1953,
it sold for $5,210 ($60,400 in today’s
dollars) versus $4,144 for a new Cadillac
Teague essentially took the six-passenger Packard convertible and gave it a
mixed set of styling cues. He borrowed
the clean body sides, chromed wire
wheels and full rear fender cutouts
from European sports cars and, most
likely, from Virgil Exner’s Chrysler K-310
concept coupe. The testicular taillights
came from senior Packards, and the
Continental Kit and faux hood scoop
were pure Detroit.
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Series 62 convertible or $5,000 for a
Buick Skylark.
The Caribbean became more luxurious for 1954 but lost some of its sporty
cachet. Teague gave the ’54 more
conservative styling, eliminating the
rear wheel arches and giving the car a
two-tone paint treatment. The instrument panel, shared with senior Packards, was also new. On the engineering side, the Caribbean engine now
displaced 359 cubic inches rather than
327, had nine main bearings instead of
five, featured an aluminum head and
produced 32 more horses.
Incoming Packard President James
Nance wanted to re-establish the
marque as a luxury leader, so he
added more standard equipment to
the Caribbean and senior models.
For 1954, Ultramatic and power accessories became standard, and the
Caribbean’s price rose to $6,100, the
highest in the car’s brief history.
For 1955–56, the entire Packard line
received a major facelift. Caribbeans
now shared bodies and major components with the Packard Patrician
and Four Hundred, including their
wraparound windshield and longer
wheelbase. Gone was the Continental
spare. The front ensemble, including
the grille and coved headlights, was
designed by an independent firm,
Sundberg-Ferar, while Dick Teague’s
team did the rest of the car, including
the cathedral taillights.
Most 1955 Caribbeans came with a
three-tone paint scheme: light color
on top, dark color below, with a broad,
bright accent stripe in between. Customers could special-order solid and twotone paint combinations, but few did.
The 1955 Caribbean also boasted the
most powerful version of Packard’s
new 352-cid V-8. The engine used two
four-barrel carburetors, boosting it to
275 hp at 4,800 rpm. Standard equip-
ment now included the Twin Ultramatic
with lockup torque converter, which
launched the car in low range and
shifted automatically to high (previously it launched in high). And at steady
speeds, the torque converter locked up
for better fuel economy.
Another 1955 engineering innovation
was Torsion-Level, Packard’s self-leveling,
interconnected front/rear torsion bar
suspension. This gave a superior ride
over rough surfaces and provided antidive/squat/roll handling. It also held body
height and headlight aim constant.
The 1956 Caribbean received minor
styling tweaks, but its major change
was the addition of a hardtop coupe.
The hardtop had a padded roof and
cost $500 less than the convertible.
Inside, all Caribbeans came with
reversible seat cushions, with one side
upholstered in leather and the other in
cloth. You simply flipped the cushions over. The interior color scheme
matched the exterior, which again
came in three colors.
In 1955 and ’56, many Packards suffered mechanical problems, the most
serious being the V-8’s lack of oil pressure due to a poorly designed pump.
This led to spun bearings and starved
valve gear. In addition, electrical
gremlins turned up in the Torsion-Level
suspension and pushbutton gear selector. These glitches, plus an exodus
of dealers, didn’t help Packard sales,
which dropped from 89,730 in 1953 to
28,799 by the end of 1956.
With the Packard-Studebaker merger
in October 1954, and Packard production ending in late June 1956, by 1957,
all Packards became rebadged Studebakers. And the end was nigh for both
once-proud marques.
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N
o self-respecting teen would pass up a day at an amusement park with 16 screaming roller coasters. And when my
wife Alline and I first told our daughters Claire and Eliza
about a road trip to Cedar Point amusement park, Niagara
Falls and the Henry Ford Museum, they were excited. That
changed when I mentioned the 40-year-old wagon, anemic air
conditioning, floaty, lunch-lifting ride and AM radio. Then it got
worse: No iPods or cell phones. The concept was a 1970s retro
vacation that would channel National Lampoon’s Vacation and The
Wonder Years in a 1960s or ’70s station wagon. We were offered
the opportunity because our family loves road trips and because I
promised not to tie the family dog to the bumper.
By Dan Beutler
Photography by Joe Vaughn
Turn back the clock
and hit the thrift shops —
we’re taking a road trip to 1971
Day 2
Thursday we were up early
for a day at Cedar Point amusement
park. We spent the day sampling
rides and watching coasters that were
a little too thrilling for us. Besides, we
rationalized, none could compare to
riding in the Vista Cruiser.
Day 3 Friday started early, with de-
parture from Sandusky, Ohio, for the
trip east. Once again, Vera ran faultlessly. A second day without phones or
iPods started to bring out sisterly love,
as comments from the back included
such classics as “Claire, get your feet
off me!” and “Eliza, be quiet.”
Our first stop was to visit Alline’s aunt
and uncle near Cleveland. As we
pulled up, a neighbor they’d never
met dropped in for a closer look. A
40-year Ford employee, he’d always
wanted an Oldsmobile. Soon, another
neighbor joined us, buffing towel in
hand, to admire the car.
Back on the road after lunch, we
continued to count license plates and
work on crossword puzzles. By Friday
evening, we had spotted plates from
28 states and two Canadian provinces.
The 1971 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser
was perfect for an idyllic '70s-style
vacation to amusement parks and
other classic tourist stops.
Rounding up Our Ride
As soon
as we said yes to our Hagerty Family
Vacation, the Hagerty Classic Cars team
started trolling the online ads. Soon the
list included Country Squires, Impalas, a
Catalina, and even a Falcon Squire, but
it was the dark green 1971 Oldsmobile
Vista Cruiser in New Jersey that caught
our attention. A friend pronounced the
car solid and suggested that owner
Lew Brogna could have played an extra
on The Sopranos. Next we arranged
for the Road Ready Certified inspectors (roadreadycertified.com) to do an
on-site inspection. A call to Reliable
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Carriers (reliablecarriers.com) ensured
that the Vista Cruiser was in Michigan
within days.
Once at the Hagerty garage, our guys
inspected and serviced the wagon,
which we later dubbed Vera. Then it
was time for the Beutler family to pack
our Avocado Green American Tourister luggage set and head south.
Day 1
After a warm send-off from the
home office in Traverse City, Michigan,
we reached nearby Kingsley, before
returning to Traverse City to fetch our
forgotten passports. Southbound again,
we enjoyed a picnic lunch along I-75
and a stop to see friends. The Olds ran
great, and we all managed to get along,
even sans iPods and cell phones.
We tracked license plates and the girls
read and napped. Quite a few people
honked and waved and took pictures.
The girls did notice the lack of rear climate controls, vents and cup holders.
But they survived, and we made it to
Hotel Breakers at Cedar Point, Ohio,
late Wednesday.
By the time we arrived in Mayville,
New York, we were hungry, and
the 1960s Redline Drive-In (redlinedrivein.com) called out to us.
After waiting for a parking spot, we
berthed Vera the Vista Cruiser next
to a classic pink Cadillac.
Day 4
We left for Niagara Falls early.
The short drive was uneventful as both
girls slept. Everything was great, until
the glove compartment lock dropped
off and the door popped open, leaving the courtesy light perpetually on.
Duct tape and twine solved the issue
— our first of the trip.
Crossing the Rainbow Bridge into
Canada was a breeze; the border
agent was fascinated with the Vista
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In Canada, we went straight to the
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into the Crowne Plaza, which dates
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Day 5 While I loaded Vera on Sunday
morning, a gentleman saw the car and
said, “Dude, that’s incredible,” explaining that it reminded him of the Olds his
dad had when he was growing up.
We had several more encounters like
that and heard frequent shouts of
“nice ride.” It was only a short drive
from Niagara Falls to Toronto, but the
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With a speedometer reading only in
miles per hour, we had to practice metric conversions. Our next realization was
that Vera was really long: Walking into
the parking lot outside the Real Canadian Super Store, we could see about
five feet of her stern extended beyond
the row of Chevys and Toyotas.
Once in Toronto, we enjoyed touring
the CN Tower and exploring the city,
and at dinner we met a man with three
classic Oldsmobiles. In keeping with
the retro feel, we checked into the
landmark Royal York Hotel.
Day 6
In the morning, we visited the
Royal Ontario Museum and shopped on
Bloor Street, before leaving Toronto for
the easy trip to Detroit. Again, the Olds
earned a lot of attention and the border
patrol guard asked more about the car
than about our activities in Canada.
Encountering rain for the first time,
we discovered that Vera’s wipers had
two speeds: slow and really slow. She
also took on a little water, though not
enough to start bailing.
Important lessons from the day: Don't
take intermittent wipers for granted;
headlights have come a long way;
drive fast in the dark, because the
right side of the speedometer is better illuminated. Once in Dearborn,
Michigan, we signed into the old
Dearborn Inn to be near the wonderful Henry Ford Museum.
Day 7
Alline and I hadn’t been to the
Henry Ford Museum since we were
kids, and it was a first visit for Claire
and Eliza. The history and variety of the
exhibits were amazing. They didn’t have
a Vista Cruiser on display, although
there were many cars from our childhood, including one of the first Chrysler
minivans. Favorite exhibits included the
1980s toys, the trains, the presidential
cars, the home furnishings and the civil
rights display with the Rosa Parks bus.
After the Henry Ford, it was time to
return to Traverse City. But first, a little
adventure: Vera blew a tire at speed.
Thankfully, I was able to stop us safely.
The mechanics at Belle Tire in New
Hudson, Michigan, were fascinated by
Vera and took great care of her while
reminiscing about the times they had
as children in similar wagons.
A Lifetime of Memories We'll nev-
er forget this vacation and how the Olds
was our ticket to meet all kinds of people.
At first, 13-year-old Claire was embarrassed to be seen in dowdy Vera. But that
changed after hearing all the stories and
seeing people's smiles as they recounted
distant family outings. It also made the
trip richer than a typical vacation, where
the destination is the focus. By trip's end,
Claire couldn't wait to show the Vista
Cruiser to her friends, proving that what
was once boring is now very cool.
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Automobilia
Hard Chargers
and can be driven at speeds of up to 20
mph. But if you really want to get carried
away, for around $150,000, a 750cc Kawasaki motor can be installed and your
bumper car can be made street legal.
The Rock ’em, Sock ’em World of Bumper Cars
Carl Bomstead
The first Dodgem
ride opened in
Salisbury Beach, Massachusetts, and it
operated from 1921 until 1980. Other
sites quickly followed and Dodgem
became the amusement ride of
choice. A 1927 company brochure
listed 136 amusement parks in the U.S.
with Dodgem rides.
The patent for the first bumper, or
“Dodgem,” car was issued in March
1921 to Max Stoehrer and his son
Harold. The rear steering devices were
self-propelled and, according to the
patent, they were “equipped with
novel instrumentalities to render their
manipulation and control difficult and
uncertain by the occupant-operator
in order to provide an amusement
device.” In other words, as detailed
in a test by Scientific American, they
were “highly unmanageable” and “the
steering is only relative.” Even Dodgem admitted that “you go somewhere, but you don’t go where you
intend going.” They were an immediate success, as people liked smacking
and banging into one another, and
the Stoehrers were soon selling every
Dodgem car they could produce.
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A pole at the rear of the car carried the
electricity between the charged chicken wire ceiling and tin floor, and the
current would run an electromagnetic
motor propelling it along. To keep the
riders in the cars they were told that
they would get electrocuted if they
stepped on the floor. When the operators were asked why they didn’t get
Their popularity attracted the attention
of the Lusse cousins, who operated a
machine shop in Philadelphia. They
took the Dodgem design one step
further; they realized that not only did
The first Dodgem ride opened
in Salisbury Beach, Massachusetts, and it operated
from 1921 until 1980. Other
sites quickly followed
and Dodgem became the
amusement ride
of choice.
people want to collide with someone,
they wanted to choose with whom they
collided. Their design allowed the operator to drive the Auto-Skooter in the
direction intended, but it could also go
backward as quickly as it went forward.
Both companies prospered, and Dodgem claimed that a 10-car ride would
pay for the cars and the building in
the first year. In a 1926 brochure, one
operator stated, “What I like is that the
Dodgem Junior attracts the crowds
and no ordinary person can watch
someone else having fun without trying it themselves, and once they try
it they are regular patrons for life.” In
the 1930s, some operators claimed
that when the rink was full, it cost less
than a couple cents per car to operate.
With a gross of $25,000–$28,000 in a
typical 18-week season, these Depression-era rides were profitable indeed.
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, amusement parks adapted art deco aesthetics,
with bold curves and streamlining, and
bumper cars followed, with stylized
bodies that were very car-like. By the
mid-1930s, they were painted in bold
colors and included a hood ornament
on a large polished cast aluminum
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electrocuted when
they walked out to
assist a stalled car,
riders were told that
they wore special
porcelain insulators
in their shoes!
Before texting, computer games and
the Internet, a day at any amusement
park was a real treat. Parks like Cedar
Point or Great America in the Midwest
and Playland and Jantzen Beach in the
Northwest were favorites. Their rides
and cotton candy made any birthday
or other significant occasion memorable. The longest lines, however, were
always for the bumper cars.
Because amusement is universal, bumper
cars caught on overseas as well. Pictured is
a Dodgem ride at the 1966 Battersea Fun
Fair in London.
grille. To add to the realism, they soon
had working headlights and taillights.
They continued to evolve as automobiles did, and by the 1950s, some
bumper cars even had Chevrolet
emblems from local dealers. They
were now made of fiberglass and the
Dodgem was marketed as “The Sensational Space Age Dodgem.”
The cars from both Dodgem and Lusse
from the 1930s and ’40s are very desirable today, adding a unique period
touch to any collection of vintage cars.
However, fully restored as a static display with bold paint, properly replicated
upholstery and sparkling brightwork,
they can be an expensive proposition:
According to Peter Foster, owner of
Lusse Auto Scooters LLC, a restoration
can cost between $15,000 and $30,000.
Some have been converted to 12-volt
Neon
Signs!
Dodgem went out of business in the
early 1970s and Lusse is still making
the “Skooter,” although the majority
of bumper cars are now produced by
Spaggiari of Italy. There are, however,
a few parks that operate fleets of
vintage Lusse Auto-Skooters. As one
enthusiastic rider stated, “Once you’ve
ridden these, everything else is just
going around in circles.”
To learn more about vintage bumper cars, go to
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I heard something about the
Marx Brothers racing a Duesenberg
in the 1920s or ’30s, but the details
escape me. Anything you can offer?
The race to which you’re referring was a high-stakes showdown
between Zeppo and Chico Marx’s
1928 Mercedes-Benz S 26/180
boattail speedster and Hollywood
talent agent Phil Berg’s 1931 Duesenberg Model J dual-windshield
“barrelside” phaeton in October
1932. According to automotive
historian Griffith Borgeson’s account
in a 1980 issue of Automobile
Quarterly (Volume 18, Number 3), the
Marx Brothers spotted the Duesenberg outside entertainer Al Jolson’s
house on Sunset Boulevard, where
Berg and his wife were playing
bridge, and stopped to challenge
Berg to a race. That challenge grew
into a $25,000 wager, approximately
$2 million today. The parties agreed
to compete on a desert course at
Muroc Dry Lake, California, and one
morning — before a crowd of more
than 1,000 people that included
Jolson, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable,
Mae West and Carole Lombard —
Berg’s stripped-down Duesenberg
trounced Zeppo and Chico’s Benz. As
a side note, the Marx Benz is part of a
private East Coast collection, and in
2011, it won the Mercedes S Class at
Pebble Beach.
What is your opinion about
adding lead to gasoline for cars
built in the 1950s and earlier?
PHOTO: RM Auctions
These automobiles were built to
run on leaded gasoline, which is no
longer available, except for use in
small aircraft. You used to be able to
find lead additives, but those have
gone by the wayside, too. Now we
have lead substitutes. Unleaded
gasoline heats an engine at slow
speeds far more than leaded gasoline
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did, and one of lead’s functions was to
protect the engine’s valves and valve
seats, so it’s a good idea to add a lead
substitute whenever you gas up. Lead
substitutes don’t function quite as well
as lead did, but they help, especially
with cars that are known to overheat.
I’m having a tough time tracking down a cold start injector for
my 1987 Corvette 350. Any idea
where I can find one?
You’re not alone. Cold start
injectors for Corvettes from that era are
pretty tough to come by, since no one
is manufacturing replacements, and the
few used ones that surface on eBay and
Craigslist are snatched up almost
immediately. You’ll have to be diligent
and patient and keep searching.
Meanwhile, you will find great information and support on sites such as
corvetteactioncenter.com. No doubt
you will stumble across a video or two
describing how to bypass the cold start
injector when it wears out, but we don’t
recommend taking that route.
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1956 Lancia Aurelia B24S
1975 Oldsmobile 98 Coupe
455-cid, 210-hp V-8, Automatic
SOLD AT $33,000
unrestored arizona
As original and unrestored cars gain prominence in the market, more and more are turning
up at auction. But is there one true definition?
Dave Kinney
These days, “unrestored” is the term
more and more hobbyists want to
hear in their search for collector cars.
Ten years ago this was not the case.
But the collector car market in North
America has gotten in on a secret that
much of the rest of the world already
knew: The patina of an unrestored car
is pretty cool. Now, “unrestored” still
means different things to different
collectors: If the car has fresh chrome
but original paint, does it qualify?
1956 Lancia Aurelia B24S Spider America
2,451-cc, 125-hp V-6, 4-speed
SOLD AT $803,000
How about some changes to the
interior, done for the first owner when
the car was still “new?” We don’t have
any hard and fast answers yet, and we
might still be talking about the fine
details years from now.
While the dust in Scottsdale, Arizona,
was still flying last January, we looked
at a number of cars that occupied the
“unrestored” spectrum. Here are a
few of our favorites.
Gooding & Company | January 19, 2013 | lot 147
This red-over-gray-leather Lancia was
about as original as it gets. Showing
just over 28,000 miles, it was a oneowner car that had sat in a locked
garage, undisturbed, since 1963. Presented with a layer of grit, dust and
dirt, there was no attempt to improve
the car physically before the sale,
and beneath it all was a lifetime of
dents, divots and dings to body and
chrome. For the sake of comparison,
that same weekend, RM Auctions
sold a B24S with an older restoration
for $825,000.
1903 Oldsmobile Model R Curved Dash Runabout
95-cid, 4.5-hp 1-cylinder, 2-speed
Showing just 151 miles from new, this
cranberry-over-cranberry-velour 98
was your basic bought and forgot car.
It was said to have been in climatecontrolled storage for most of its life
and appears as-new just about everywhere, with detailing as if it were on
the showroom floor. “Time capsule”
and “flashback” come to mind when
looking at this mid-’70s cruiser, even
underhood. All the original paperwork
was included.
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the spectrum
of Originality
Courtesy Gooding & Company;
Photo by Mathieu Heurtault
Barrett-Jackson | January 17, 2013 | lot 1558
1975 Oldsmobile 98
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1974 Jaguar E-Type Series III Roadster
5,343-cc, 272-hp V-12, 4-speed
SOLD AT $77,000
RM Auctions | January 18, 2013 | lot 181
The limited E-Type option list in 1974
allowed for manual or automatic
transmissions, wire or disc wheels, air
conditioning and a hardtop. With the
exception of the hardtop, all of the
“good” choices were made here. Well
presented in silver over red leather
with a black vinyl top, it showed just
4,500 original miles. It had been fully
repainted, but all chrome, glass and
interior surfaces were original. Does
the paint alone disqualify it from unrestored status? The debate goes on,
but at least two people loved this one
enough to put it in the range of the "A
List" Series I convertibles.
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1903 oldsmobile Model R Runabout
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Just what do you say when you meet a
110-year-old? This unrestored, chaindriven veteran showed well for its age
in black (possibly very dark blue) paint
over black leather. Under the layers of
dust, it was tough to tell if someone
had done any touch-up work — 40 or
50 years before you were born. But
with London–Brighton eligibility, you
can drive this Olds and scoff at the fellow who just bought the 1975 Olds 98.
1974 Jaguar E-Type Series III
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BonhamS | January 17, 2013 | lot 383
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Robert Roach and Jason
Thomas (upper left) have
teamed up to give kids
more hands-on experience.
One of Roach's greatest
teaching tools is his 1963
Studebaker Avanti.
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One resourceful shop
teacher is trying to give
his kids every advantage
With more than 40 students per
period, Roach was simply unable to supervise kids in his classroom and those
outside working on projects. What he
needed was another set of eyes. The
$16,800 Collectors Foundation grant
allows him those eyes in the form of
Jason Thomas, a part-time instructor
with more than 40 years of experience
in the automotive industry, particularly
diagnostics and restoration services.
Stefan Lombard
One Saturday in November 2011,
Robert Roach drove a few of his Carson
High School shop class students out to
Redondo Beach for the Hagerty Driving
Experience, a unique opportunity for
the kids to learn to drive cool old cars
alongside their patient owners. It was
a unique opportunity for Roach, too,
because it led him to Bob Knechel,
president of the Collectors Foundation.
Carson falls in the Los Angeles Unified
School District and is one of few schools
that still has a shop class. But amid
ever-tightening budgetary restrictions
(Roach’s annual budget in 2012 was just
$200), there has been little in the way of
investment in kids who genuinely want
to learn to work with their hands.
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“I call it the This Old House model,”
Roach says. “You had Bob Vila, who
does all the talking, and you had Norm
Abram, the quiet guy who knows
everything and could do everything.
I’m kind of the Bob Vila guy, and Jason
is Norm. He can do it all, and I translate
it for the kids.” The system is working, and with Jason in class two days
a week, Roach is able to offer more
hands-on work to his students. The
pair have even opened up the shop
every other Saturday to allow students
to come work on whatever they want;
the first weekend, 22 kids showed up.
Roach is a Studebaker guy, and he’s
using his own cars as teaching tools
in the shop. Fellow Studebaker Club
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contractor, installed an Ingersoll Rand
industrial compressor that had been
sitting on a pallet for three years,
hung up in district bureaucracy. Others have donated money to fund consumables like chemicals, carb cleaner,
gaskets, tools and more. Roach also
solicited donations from a local uniform rental company; one Saturday, a
truckload of old uniforms showed up,
and each kid now has a jumpsuit.
Roach’s resourcefulness is paying off
and is just one reason the Collectors
Foundation wanted to help. “Robert is
rebuilding the program from the bottom up,” says Knechel. “I’m convinced
that, under the leadership of Robert
and Jason, it will rise from neglect
to success. And the collector vehicle
community will ultimately be the beneficiary of this new talent.”
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HISTORIC VEHICLE ASSOCIATION
Daytona 24 Hours: 2nd as #6, driven by
Mark Donohue, Craig Fisher, Bob Johnson
PHOTOs: C. Fischer photo, courtesy Don Lee
THIS CAR MATTERS
For 1968, the Penske Camaros (above) were a
common sight at the front in the SCCA's Trans Am
series. The year started strong with the subject car
(left) finishing second at Daytona.
“This Car Matters” is a movement to collect, preserve and share stories about cars that shaped
our lives, our communities and our heritage. In
every issue of Hagerty Classic Cars, the Historic
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a significant impact on modern culture or the
people who encountered it.
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Sebring 12 Hours: 2nd (4th overall), driven
by Joe Welch, Bob Johnson, Craig Fisher
Bridgehampton: 3rd, driven by Sam Posey
meadowdale: 3rd, driven by Sam Posey
mont Tremblant: 3rd, driven by Sam Posey
bryar motorsport park: 6th, driven by
Sam Posey
watkins glen: 2nd, driven by Sam Posey
Milestones
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2
Raced in Europe in 1969 by Peter
Reinhart; won 18 of 20 races.
3
Vintage raced by Tom Armstrong
through 2009; won “Most Outstanding
Race Car” designation at the Amelia
Island Concours d’Elegance in 2008.
4
5
Raced by Don Lee in the Historic
Trans Am series in 2010-12.
6
Presently owned by Bill Bryan; displayed at Amelia Island in 2013 as a
tribute to Sam Posey.
1968 Trans Am
Penske Sunoco
Camaro
Car Club of America (SCCA) Trans
Am racing series pitted large grids of
closely matched coupes that resembled production models. Trans Am racing epitomized the “Race on Sunday,
sell on Monday” ideology.
Known for its tightly contested road
races, featuring mixed fields of cars
over and under two liters, the Sports
The V-8 pony cars were immensely popular, so automakers threw their best engineering and racing experts into the fray
New owner Malcom Gartland and
driver Brian Muir won the Group 2
championship in 1970–71.
Featured at the Petersen Automotive Museum and in Mark Donohue
Reunion events.
to ensure they’d win. With reputations
and sales on the line, domestics and imports developed performance modifications that upped the ante with every race.
Racing legends like Mark Donohue, Dan
Gurney, Sam Posey and Parnelli Jones
competed in the over 2-liter class, while
Paul Newman, Horst Kwech, John Morton
and many others battled in the under
2-liter (and later under 2.5-liter) class.
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Penske's dominant Sunoco Camaros helped fuel the popularity of Trans Am.
Enthusiastic spectators delighted in
intense, wheel-to-wheel battles on the
best tracks in North America. During
the “golden years” from 1966 to 1972,
active factory participation by Chevrolet, Ford, Plymouth and Dodge, and
American Motors, along with numerous
independent teams, made the racing
unforgettable. Thundering pony cars
raced alongside the snarling imports
from Alfa Romeo, BMW and even
Porsche. Despite vigilant inspectors and
the prying eyes of competitors, rivals
sought an edge with clever legal and
illegal ways to circumvent the rules.
Our feature car is the first of two 1968
Camaros, scratch-built from bodies in
white by Ron Fournier, chief fabricator for Roger Penske. Competitive,
professional and fast, with former
engineer-turned-driver Mark Donohue
behind the wheel, the Penske team
captured the 1968 Trans Am Championship by winning 10 of 13 races.
The car shown here first appeared at
Daytona on February 3, 1968, where
it wore the number 6 and was raced
by Mark Donohue and Bob Johnson
to 12th overall and 2nd in class. It was
powered by a Traco-built 302-cid smallblock producing 400 horsepower, which
would prove to be a major part of Team
Penske’s success for the season.
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At Sebring, Johnson teamed with
Joe Welsh and Craig Fisher and
again finished 2nd in class, but this
time behind Donohue in a sister car.
More importantly, the Camaros were
3rd and 4th overall behind a pair of
Porsche 907s. In perfect illustration
of what a team would do to gain an
edge, the Camaro was sent through
tech inspection twice, wearing both
its own number 16 and Donohue’s
number 15.
Following the Florida successes, the
Penske team concentrated on Donohue in the car he’d driven at Sebring.
However, beginning at Bridgehampton
in June, Sam Posey joined the team for
a five-race deal to drive the Daytona car.
He finished on the podium four times
and helped Penske claim the Manufacturer’s Championship for Chevrolet.
This authentic Sunoco Camaro features many of the Penske/Donohue
“unfair advantages,” like increased
fuel capacity from a trick fuel tank filler
neck that holds two extra gallons, a
sneaky vacuum-assisted device for
quick brake pad replacement, an early
structural roll cage, factory prototype
dual carburetion, artfully revised
suspension geometry and one of the
most audacious modifications: aciddipped panels to lighten the car.
PHOTO: C. Fischer photo, courtesy Don Lee
THIS CAR MATTERS
An era ended in late 2012 when
Hearst Publishing moved iconic
motoring magazine Road &
Track from its longtime home
in Newport Beach, California,
to Ann Arbor, Michigan. One of
the biggest challenges was to
ensure the continuation of its
substantial library and archive,
which included thousands of
volumes, photos, press releases
and extensive correspondence
dating from 1947.
Fortunately, the collection has
been transferred to the Revs
Program at Stanford University
in Palo Alto, California, which
is in the vanguard of the new
movement to create an accessible repository of automotive
history. According to the program’s director, Reilly Brennan,
that repository has now been
bolstered by “527 boxes weighing more than 10,000 pounds”
from Road & Track.
“The collection will be physically housed at the Stanford
University Libraries on campus,”
says Brennan, although the goal
is to digitize, preserve and make
available to the public via the
Internet a collection rich with
items much more diverse than
just the back issues of Road &
Track. — Rob Sass
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The HVA is looking for
stories from historic vehicle lovers around the
country to help create an oral
history of the automobile within
American culture. It’s easy to get
involved. Check out the HVA
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— and click on the "This Car
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Last October, Bonhams conducted an
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It also coincided with the release of
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by the museum’s founder, Dr. Frederick
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the Spring 2013 issue, but the subject of
preservation is worth exploring further.
1909-7
Noted collector Miles Collier penned
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as it relates not only to having certain
objects, but in recognizing significance
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classic cars — a “young” type of collectible in the scope of items valued by
humans through the ages — and other,
more established collectibles such as
fine art, antique furniture and firearms.
Key to establishing and defending the
original automobile as something to
be preserved for future generations is
the comparison to errors in judgment
made throughout time in caring for
those other collectibles. Where once it
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them physically altered to suit their
own personal tastes, the thought of
such practices now is absurd. And so
it should be with significant automobiles, argues Collier: “The evolution
of the rules that govern how we treat
important collectibles appears to have
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In the instance of antique furniture,
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automobiles and is being reflected in
market values, where original cars are
bringing similar or more money than
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Often, classic cars connect us to
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car, not as stewards of an artifact to be
preserved but as owners of an object
with free reign to alter it as we see fit. In
a car that lost its originality several owners and several decades ago, the point
is moot. But for cars connected to the
past through all their original parts and
a lifetime of scuffs, scratches, cracks
and dings, real consideration and reflection are required. As Collier writes,
“Once the evidence of an object’s
travel through time disappears, history
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830 LB.
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Ambassador for life
The gold 1965 Ambassador
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Suzanne Edmonds was the youngest
of three daughters to a father who
took his cars seriously. Story time consisted of reading aloud from Automobile Quarterly.
Formerly a Ford family, on April 1,
1965, they took delivery of a Rambler Ambassador 990 Cross Country
wagon. Finished in Barcelona Taupe
with a Frost White roof, the Ambassador was fitted with the 327 V-8 and
Borg-Warner three-speed automatic.
The car was special-ordered without power steering, while they also
deleted the driver's side headrest so
Mom wouldn't mess her hair.
From the beginning, the Rambler had
a tough life. “My mother was an artist
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Sierra to paint,” says Suzanne. “She
kept hitting the undercarriage and
Dad got tired of fixing the transmission.” So in 1972, her parents replaced
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the Rambler with the Wagoneer now
owned by Suzanne’s son.
The Rambler then passed to middle
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later. It served her through high school
and college, but it remained behind
when she started graduate school in
Baltimore in 1984.
Her parents drove it occasionally, but
after 1989, it sat while Suzanne started
her career. In 2009, Lovely Rita joined
Suzanne, husband Rick and son Matt in
Flagstaff, Arizona, and the couple began their first ever restoration. The only
problem was that neither Suzanne nor
Rick had any experience. “We pulled
the seized 327 and a local shop rebuilt
it,” she says. Luckily, the transmission and rear axle needed little more
than cleaning and servicing. Rust was
limited to surface corrosion in the front
cowl and inside the tailgate. They tore
out the rodent-infested interior and
stripped the car to bare metal. Rick, a
retired satellite operations engineer,
then rebuilt all the electrical components and Suzanne learned that “the
only thing harder than taking a tailgate
off is putting it back on.” After Rick
cleaned and stripped the engine compartment, a local body shop sprayed
one panel at a time, before the entire
car was treated to more color and the
clearcoat. During reassembly, Rick fitted
a new wiring harness.
Using NOS fabric Suzanne had found
years earlier, Ace Upholstery in Flagstaff crafted a new interior, while she
and Rick fitted correct replacement
carpets. The only visible concessions
to originality are radial tires and the
Flowmaster dual exhaust, which was
Suzanne’s 50th birthday present.
A longtime member of the AMC Rambler Club, Suzanne loves that people
don’t take themselves seriously. Despite
being an “old lady’s car — because
everywhere you go little old ladies wave
at you —” it has consistently done well
at all kinds of shows. “It kind of scares
the crap out of me,” Suzanne says,
“because, after all, it’s just my car.”
Early highlights 1954 Ferrari 500 Mondial Spider SerieS i Coachwork by Pinin Farina; Chassis no. 0418 MD; 1954 Mille Miglia factory team entry
1957 MercedeS-Benz 300Sl roadSter Chassis no. 198.042.7500229; Recent concours restoration; Only two owners from new
1986 porSche 962 Chassis no. 962-122; Expertly restored and race-prepared
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